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Contents 1 Table of articles by quality and importance 2 Assessment 3 Always on-going tasks 4 Importance scale 4.1 People 4.2 Topics 4.3 Experiments 4.4 Theories 4.5 Equations 4.6 Institutions 4.7 Publications 4.8 Equipment 4.9 Miscellaneous 4.10 Lists 5 Reviewing Cheatsheet 5.1 Reviewing Cheatsheet

[edit] Table of articles by quality and importance

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Physics articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 8 14 13 3 38 FL 1 2 2 5 A 1 1 2 1 5 GA 8 6 8 11 33 B 129 257 315 207 908 C 59 189 389 232 1 870 Start 24 575 1821 2053 183 4656 Stub 1 32 759 1837 3799 6428 List 10 16 35 52 113 Assessed 241 1092 3344 4396 3983 13056 Unassessed 111 111 Total 241 1092 3344 4396 4094 13167

Assessment categories Assessment categories Importance→ Class↓ Top High Mid Low NA ??? Rated Total FA 8 14 13 3 0 0 38 38 FL 1 2 2 0 0 0 5 5 A 1 1 2 1 0 0 5 5 GA 8 6 8 11 0 0 33 33 B 129 260 316 206 0 0 908 908 C 59 189 389 232 0 0 870 870 Start 24 577 1,822 2,058 0 180 4,483 4,663 Stub 1 32 759 1,840 0 3,811 2,632 6,443 List 10 16 35 52 0 0 113 113 Template 0 0 0 0 115 0 115 115 Category 0 0 0 0 692 0 692 692 Disambig 0 0 0 0 64 0 64 64 Image 0 0 0 0 17 0 17 17 NA 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Redirect 0 0 0 0 493 0 492 492 Portal 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 Project 0 0 0 0 57 0 57 57 Unassessed 0 0 0 0 0 111 0 111 Assessed 238 1,097 3,339 4,402 1,449 3,994 10,526 14,517 Total 238 1,097 3,339 4,402 1,449 4,105 10,526 14,628

Progress

Assessment	Assessed/Total	Percentage	Updated
Quality	12,524/12,714	98.51%	19:19, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Importance	8,411/12,714	66.16%	19:19, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

• List of the 500 most popular physics pages

[edit] Assessment

• All "top" and "high" importance have been re-assessed (by Headbomb only) 17:06, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
• All FA, GA, A class articles have been re-assessed (by Headbomb only) 17:06, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
• All B class articles have been re-assessed (by Headbomb only) 04:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
• Start-class articles # – C have been re-assessed (by Headbomb only) 05:57, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
• Start-class articles starting with letter B have been re-assessed by TStein 17 June, 2008 and by Headbomb 05:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
• Start-class articles starting with letter D have been re-assessed by TStein 20 June, 2008
• Searched unassessed articles (A-Z) for high and top importance articles. Added a number of high importance and 1 top importance articles using the new criteria. (by TStein only)
• Start class articles of unknown importance (A-E) have been given importance. Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 00:16, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
• Cleared Category:Pages within the scope of WikiProject Physics (WP Astronomy Banner) Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 05:21, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
• Start class articles of unknown importance (A-Z) have been given importance. (Timothy Rias and Headbomb?) (august 2008). (TimothyRias (talk) 09:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Always on-going tasks

• Assess the quality and importance of "unassessed" articles
• Re-assess the quality and importance of "Mid" and "Low" importance articles

[edit] Importance scale

Top: Fundamental and famous physics. Any physics article listed in Wikipedia:Vital articles or Wikipedia:Core topics - 1,000.
High: Important or famous. Something an undergraduate physics major could have heard of or studied.
Mid: Cover articles that pretty much only people in the know heard about, while not being over-specialized.
Low: Everything else

[edit] People

• Top: People who made fundamental or very famous contributions to physics in general.

Examples:Einstein (foundation of special and general relativity), Curie (discovery of radioactivity), Bohr (Bohr's model), Rutherford (discovery of the nucleus), Chadwick (discovery of neutron), Feynman (foundation of quantum electrodynamics), Newton (foundation of classical mechanics), Galileo (invention of the telescope, amongst other things) , Copernicus (Copernican model), Kepler (Kepler's Laws), Maxwell (Maxwell's Equations)...

• High: People who made major or famous contributions within their field (usually, but not always, people with effects or experiments named after them).

Examples: Schottky, Faraday, all physics Nobel Prize laureates (other than those already in "Top") and those who won other Nobel prize that are physics related, ...

• Mid: Generally people who made important contributions to their fields who are recognized within their peers. All physicist who won major prizes or awards besides the Nobel Prize. All physicist who developed or invented widely used techniques within physics.

Examples: Hartree and Fock (Hartree-Fock method), Robert H. Dicke (lock-in amplifiers), Karl D. Swartzel Jr. (op-amps), ...

[edit] Topics

• Top: The Physics article, along with major divisions of theory (e.g., List of basic physics topics) and research:

Examples: Classical Electrodynamics, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity, Optics, Solid State Physics, Condensed matter physics, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics, ...

Particle constituents of ordinary matter and light: Proton, neutron, electron, subatomic particle, elementary particle, quark and photon

• High: Important topics within "top importance fields":

Examples:

Classical Mechanics: torque, Centripetal force, Centrifugal force, Coriolis force, ...

Classical Electrodynamics: Electric Field, Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force, ...

Thermodynamics: Pressure, Enthalpy, Fermi-Dirac distribution, Bose-Einstein distribution...

Solid-state physics: Band theory, Crystallography, Doping, Diode, phonon, ...

Quantum field theory: Symmetry, Feynman diagrams, CPT invariance, ...

Physical Constants: Elementary charge, plank's constant, fine-structure constant, speed of light, ...

Elementary Particles: Leptons, force carriers, hadrons (baryons, mesons), atoms, neutrinos, the individual quarks, antimatter...

• Mid: Subdivisions of "high importance" physics categories:

Examples:

Crystallography: Bragg diffraction, Miller indices, Lattice, Reciprocal lattice...

Optics: Polarization, plane wave, nonlinear optics, Brewster's Angle, ...

Quantum Electrodynamics: Self-energy, Self-interaction, Yukawa potential,...

Particle physics: Most hypothetical elementary particles, most composite particles.

Quasiparticles: magnon, soliton, polaron, polariton, ...

• Low: Further subdivisions of fields, disproved or abandoned theories:

Examples:

Particle physics: hypothetical composite particles; hypothetical elementary particle which are not predicted by any currently mainstream theory (e.g. preon).

[edit] Experiments

• Top: Famous experiments, first discoveries of major phenomena, first measurements of a fundamental constant (please update experimental physics accordingly).

Examples: The Cosmic microwave background radiation and its discovery, Cavendish experiment, Rutherford experiment, Stern-Gerlach experiment, Michelson-Morley experiment, double-slit experiment ...

• High: Common undergraduate experiments, or important or famous industry methods:

Examples: Franck-Hertz experiment, e/m experiment, Czochralski process, ...

• Mid: Typical experiments performed in "mid importance" topics, famous refinements to the measurements of a fundamental constant or properties of a material, well known industry methods:

Examples:

[edit] Theories

• Top: Important and well known theories:

Examples: Newton's Laws, Newton's law of universal gravitation, Maxwell's equations, Special Relativity, Standard model, Atomic Theory, ...

• High:

Examples: Ising Model, Band theory, Brownian motion, ...

• Mid:

Examples: Drude model, Sommerfeld model, Debye model, Einstein model

[edit] Equations

• Top: Key equations of top rated theories. Very well known equations.

Examples: E = mc²

• High: Major or famous equations:

Examples: Bernoulli's Principle, Archimedes' Principle

• Mid:

Examples:Drag equation

[edit] Institutions

• Top: None
• High: Major or famous institutes and laboratories:

Examples: LHC, Fermilab, Bell Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ...

• Mid:

Examples:

[edit] Publications

• Top: None
• High: Famous landmark papers and publications.

Examples: Einstein's Annus Mirabilis Papers, Newton's Principia, ...

• Mid:High impact physics journals. Books famous enough to be known by their author only to most of the physics community. Famous popular science publications.

Examples: Jackson: Electrodynamics, Landau and Lifshitz, Physical Review, A Brief History of Time, The Elegant Universe, ...

[edit] Equipment

• Top: Very important instruments:

Examples: Laser, spectrograph, ...

• High: Important instruments

Examples: Multimeter, Cyclotron, Oscilloscope, Scale, ...

• Mid: Important instruments within specialized fields:

Examples: E-beam, Magnetic sensor, ...

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Top: fundamental or very famous physics and physics related topics

Examples: elementary charge, mass, force, momentum, energy, entropy ...

• Top: Important atoms:

Hydrogen atom (simplest), carbon (biochemistry), oxygen (breathing), silicon(electronics), uranium nuclear power

• Top: Top X visited sites

Examples: Most will also be represented already, but it is a good check

• High: * A list articles
• High: Major or famous phenomena:

Examples: Ultraviolet catastrophe, Cerenkov radiation, Interference, Why the sky is blue/Rayleigh Scattering, free-fall, refraction, gravitational lenses ...

• High: Common units

Examples: Those listed in the articles SI base units, SI derived units, and cgs, plus others such as electron volt, ...

• Mid:

Examples:

[edit] Lists

• Top: Lists of "fundamental" stuff:

Examples:List of physical constants

List of elementary particles

List of atoms

List of quasiparticles

• High: List of physicists.
• High: List of SI, cgs, and non-SI units approved by the BIPM.
• Mid:Lists of "important" stuff:

Examples:

List of material-specific constants

Lists of material-specific properties

Lists of isotopes by elements

[edit] Reviewing Cheatsheet

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